St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-05

of attention, and all our owners and
breeders were very deeply impressed
with his evident capacity to trot very
fast. So deep was this impression sew
eral engagements were made at once to
send number of mares down to Cleye-
land to be bred to him. He is a horse
that seems to be coming better and better
all the time. If, in his subsequent races.
he has not lowered his record, it is solely
due to the fact that there was nothing
in the race that compelled him to trot
fast. In his trOt at Hartford last
Wednesday in the $4,000 stake race he
trotted against Prince Wilkes and four
other horses, and won i'll three straight,
easy heats in 2:11$4, 2:17 and 2:1S. This
was but little better than an exercising
gait for him, and he had to be taken
back on the hOme-Stretch and logged
home to avoid diStancing the whole
field. To show how deep an impression
this young stallion made on one horse
man, it may be mentioned that William
l.. McGrath, of st. Paul, went down to
Muscatine, To-, and bought three young
SterS by Patronage, a full brother of
Patron. Mr.. McGrath says Patronage
is a picture of his fast brother, and is a
large, nice, well-built horse. In COM
pliance with the wishes of a number of
horSemen, the following description of
this remarkable horse is given:
Patron Is now five years old and was bred
in Kentucky. That he should be wonder
fully fast and precocious trotter is not strange
when the performances in that line of his
ancestors are considered. His sire. Pan
coast. has a record of 2:21s4, and his grand
sire, Woodford Mambrino made a record of
2:21l2 when he was sixteen wears old and
ford Mambrno was Mambrino Chief. the
horse that got Lady Thorne, whose mile in
2:lS4 was wonderful performance at the
time she was on the turf In the maternal
line the speed inheritance of Patron is no less
marked, his dam being a full sister to the
famous flly Elvira, that, when a four-year
old, trotted i'll 2:lSl2, making what was then
the best record for a horse of her age. al
though a four year-old has since trotted in
2:16. The dam of Patron was at two years
old as fast as her afterward
FAMOUS SISTER,
but being put to breeding her speed was never
developed. She was sired by Cuyler, a son
of Rysdyk's Hambletonian the greatest trot-
ting sire the world has ever known.
When Patron was yearling he was pur-
chased for $500 by Canadian who had a
fancy for trotterS, and was enjoying a pleas
ure trip through the blue grass region of
Kentucky. At that time the sire of Patron
was not us famous as he is now, and his colts
consequently went cheap. Patron was left
IN Kentucky to be developed by G. j. Fuller
well known trainer, who has ever since had
charge of him. AS wo-year-old he won Il
race for horses of his age, making record of
2:42t2- The following spring his speed had
greatly increased, and under Fuller's careful
tutelage he soon developed into the fastest
three-year-old that had ever been seen in
Kentucky, and i'll the fall of 1885, at Lex
lngton, KY, he trotted the best race ever
placed to the credit of three year-old, beat
Ing Silverone and CRANKY in 2:20I2, 2:25
and 2:19l2. The third heat equaled the best
time previously made by a three-year-old the
California FLY, linda Rose, having trotted a
mile in 2:19l2 against time, but Patrons
third mile in that time, his first heat in
2:2012, and the fact that this work was done
in race against other horses made his per-
Torrance by far the best
He appeared but twice in 1886. having in
1ured himself early in the season by being
cast i'll his stall. Last fall c. F. Emery, of
Cleveland, o., purchased a half interest in
Patron for $4,000, with the intention of
trottlng him this season in an effort to give
him the fastest stallion record and then
place him in the stud. In his first race this
summer Patron was not in shape, and was
beaten. but the following week he defeated
Arab and several other noted horses in fast
time over a slow track. He then went to De-
trolt, where he won his race with ease, max
ing record of 2:16 in the third heat this
being the fastest time ever made bya five
year-old stallion. The result of this race was
that special race was made between Patron
and Harry Wilkes, the latter having record
of 2:1312, to be trotted at Cleveland the fol-
lowing week. Harry Wilkes was great fav-
easily. and in the third heat trotted the mile
In f2:14A, being so far ahead OF his
opponent at the head of the homestretch
that Fuller allowed his horse to come home
at ease, absolutely jogging under the wire.
This record of 2:14A placed Patron in the
been beaten but by two other entire horses
MaXey Cobb, 2:13L and Phallas 2.13A